How to Use bearded in a Sentence

bearded

adjective
  • He’s got a boxy, bearded face, a sharp nose, and wears glasses.
    Vinson Cunningham, The New Yorker, 1 Oct. 2024
  • Schulz is described as a bearded White male with a red plaid long-sleeve shirt and green backpack.
    Lucas Manfredi, Fox News, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Barrymore also cares for four cats, a snake, and a bearded dragon.
    Kelli Bender, People.com, 8 Oct. 2024
  • The moonwalkers from Apollo 14 were on hand, too, still bearded from their trip to space.
    The Salt Lake Tribune, 8 Mar. 2021
  • At a kotatsu nearby, a bearded young man, seated alone, was approached by a friend on the sidewalk.
    Nick Paumgarten, The New Yorker, 22 Feb. 2021
  • An elementary school honored him with a statue in his scruffy, bearded likeness.
    New York Times, 11 Mar. 2021
  • Enormous and bearded, condescending and fond, ravenous, sad-eyed, the pair of them.
    Elizabeth McCracken, Harpers Magazine, 5 Jan. 2021
  • The reams of mostly white bearded men that descended upon the Capitol last week wasn’t an amorphous blob.
    Nicholas Quah, Vulture, 13 Jan. 2021
  • She was greeted by an old friend: a big, bearded regular, well over six feet and two hundred pounds, named Michael Sakara.
    Elon Green, Vulture, 24 Feb. 2021
  • At one point, Olman can be seen taking money from the bearded Cleckler and agreeing to make a beer run for him.
    Marc Freeman, sun-sentinel.com, 16 Mar. 2021
  • The dusty construction guy made common cause with the lawyer licking his paws and the bearded militiaman with a maggot in his brainstem.
    James Parker, The Atlantic, 20 Jan. 2021
  • At the height of Europe’s migrant crisis, a bearded man in sweatpants walked into a police station.
    New York Times, 29 Dec. 2020
  • Clad in a turban, the bearded Sufi cleric is a visible presence in the community.
    Isabelle De Pommereau, The Christian Science Monitor, 23 Mar. 2021
  • Unsurprisingly, no one signs on, and the couple band together to pass off heavily bearded hipsters as righteous men.
    Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 22 Mar. 2021
  • One posted by a Taliban spokesman on Twitter on Dec. 28 shows five rifle-toting, thickly bearded fighters standing in a row.
    Scott Peterson, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Jan. 2021
  • The others are from the head of a boy and the head of a bearded male.
    Reuters, CNN, 19 Dec. 2022
  • The old, bearded man in front of me kneeled and kissed the Afghan earth.
    Lina Abirafeh, CNN, 16 June 2021
  • One costume stumps the room: The Dude, i.e., a bearded dad in a bathrobe.
    Rob Sheffield, Rolling Stone, 25 Mar. 2023
  • The long-bearded bassist for the Texas blues rock trio ZZ Top.
    Bernard McGhee, ajc, 10 Dec. 2021
  • Next to a Star Wars group was a red, white, and blue booth and a bearded man in a suit.
    Cecilia D'anastasio, Wired, 10 June 2021
  • Left to right: an intaglio of Jupiter; a cameo of a dog; a cameo of a bearded man.
    Rebecca Mead, The New Yorker, 6 May 2024
  • But that [second-to-last] scene with the bearded guy, that was not me.
    Brian Davids, The Hollywood Reporter, 1 Mar. 2022
  • One of the fragments depicts the head of a boy, another the head of a horse, and the third the head of a bearded man.
    Elinda Labropoulou, CNN, 25 Mar. 2023
  • Across the room stands a man — tall, bearded, fully dressed.
    Washington Post, 24 May 2023
  • Back to the future: Hazel hitches a ride with this big bearded guy in a van.
    Jessica Goldstein, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2021
  • The doors opened at the next stop, and a man about my age (mid-30s), leathery-faced and wiry-bearded, stumbled in.
    Michael P.h. Stanley, The Christian Science Monitor, 16 Nov. 2021
  • His legs were wrapped tightly around the goat-bearded man, who was whistling through his nose.
    Vladimir Sorokin, Harper’s Magazine , 20 July 2022
  • On the sidewalk a bearded man stood rooted, staring up at the sun.
    Hazlitt, 30 Aug. 2023
  • Young, bearded, brash, and fluent in memes, 39-year-old Bukele always had the physique du role to cater to the laser-eye brigade.
    Wired, 30 June 2021
  • Their main food sources are ringed and bearded seals, which also live in the Arctic.
    Allison Futterman, Discover Magazine, 1 Nov. 2021

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